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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1975-01-02

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1975-01-02, page 01

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VOL. 53 NO. 1
JANUARY 2, 1975 - TEVETH 19
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Glenn Richter, national coordinator of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, .. and Morey Schapira, coordinator for the New England SSSJ, reported that "there is not one iota-of change in the anti-Jewish policies of the USSR since the an¬ nounced Jackson Amendment 'agreement.'" -The two, who just returned from a week of intensive discussions with activist leaders in Moscow and Leningrad, said they found the activists "extremely concerned about the Jackson Amendment and urged concerned Americans to do all they can to insure implementation by Congress. A major concern of the activists, Richter and Schapira said, was the desperate condition of the POCs.
COPENHAGEN (JTA) — The famed Jewisli refugee ship, Saint/Laurence, which was the temporary home of 2000 Jewish refugees during 1969-.70; may soon become a floating hotel in an Arab country. The ship, docked in Copenhagen's harbor since 1967, became famous during the great refugee movement from Poland beginning in 1969. Polish Jews coming to Denmark lived aboard the ship while awaiting im¬ migration. Negotiations ate now under way to sell the ship to Arab interests and remove it to the Persian Gulf harbor of Abu Dhabi. The ship was originally-a pleasure shjlp, launched nearly 50 years ago from Canadian shores.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The Philaldelphia AFL- , CK) several days ago adopted a resolution, endorsing me statement on the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted,by the. AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington last month. The statement .described as ah outrage the^UN General Assembly'decision to give the PLO observer status.and criticized the Assembly for inviting thepLO to-participate in'the debate on the ' Palestine issue. The Philadelphia resolution. also declared that "the Palestinians never chose this band murderers' (the PLO) whose avowed aim is the destruction of Israel as a sovereign nation to represent them in the first place."
Gromyko Repudiates Soviet Emigration Letters: Says They "Distorted" Soviet Position
WASHINGTON, (WNS) - Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has denied giving the United States any assurarice that the Soviet Union will ease emigration restrictions " in return for U.S. -trade benefits and, credits. The denial came in the form of a release by Tass, the official Soviet News agency, of a letter sent to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (Oct.- 2&) in which he repudiates the letters of understanding between Kissinger and Sen. Henry M. Jackson on Soviet
* emigration practices. The Gromyko letter said .the Kissinger-Jackson exchange creared a "distorted im¬ pression" of the .Soviet position and declared that the USSR Expects American restrictions on trade to be
, lifted unconditionally. Gromyko's letter said that in contacts with the U.S. on the emigration issue, the Soviet Urtftm "underlined that this
internal affairs that are entirely the concern of the Soviet State, and no one else," the Tass release said.. The Gromyko letter also claimed that Kissinger had been told by the Soviets that there was "a tendency toward a decrease in the number of persons wishing to leave the USSR." Kissinger, who made no mention of the .Gromyko
letter in his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee .earlier this month, told the committee that the U.S. understanding with the Soviet Union had to be taken on "faith." He told the Senators that if he were to say specifically that an agreement had5 been reached, the Soviets would repudiate it. Later State Department
spokesman Robert Anderson said Kissinger "stands by his letter of Oct. 18" to Jackson. Congressional leaders ignored the Gromyko letter and push ahead for the enactment of the Ford Administration's Trade Bill with the Jackson Amendment intact. Jackson, in .a telephone interview broadcast over Kol Israel,
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Ellman To Head Special Israel Bond Drive
A special program has
been created to encourage
self - employed persons who
are ^eligible to set up
retirement plans to finance
these trusts with Israel Bond
investments as a means of
building up an annuity which
has substantial tax savings.
trim'-
fcto
cmestion relates totally to the ^ S^'j infernal competence of our *A> Stat£?. . Tass is authorized to state that leading circles of the SSviet Union flatly reject as' unacceptable' any attempts from whoever they may come to intervene in the
Probe Mafia Links To Bergman
Edwin Ellman
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NEW YORK, (JTA)-The federal^ New York State investigation into alleged fraud and other illegal ac¬ tivities in the network of nursing and old aged homes owned by Rabbi Bernard Bergman, a leader of the American and World Mizrachi Movement; will also look into possible ties with" the upderworld. - In particular, the probe will check a report that an alleged associate of reputed underworld figure Joseph A. Colombo Sr. had lived in a penthouse at one of Rabbi Bergman's • nursing homes for the indigent.
Sen. Charles H. Percy (R. 111.), a member of the Senate subcommittee on long-term care; has asked the New York Temporary State Commission on Living Costs which has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 21 to look into the matter. Percy acted on allegations by Rep. Edward I. Koch (D. NY), who charged underworld ties and political protection. Assemblyman Andrew J. Stein ' (D. Manhattan)., chairman of the com¬ mission, to)d a news con¬ ference yesterday, "It is our information that there are
connections between ,the Bernard Bergman empire and organized crime."
Steih said that' Rocco Scarfone, considered a former advisor to Colombo, had been on the payroll of the Towers ^Nursing Home and had used a penthouse in the Park Crescent Nursing Home, both Bergman facilities on Manhattan's Upper West Side. ,Rabbi Bergman, a former president of the Religious Zionist Organization of America, heads the Mizrachi's Religious Education Committee in the U.S. He' is also one of three members of the World Mizrachi Presidium which is. closely connected to the National Religious Party in Israeli Another member and associate of Rabbi Bergman is Swiss - Jewish financier Tibor Rosenbaum whose financial troubles involving millions of dollars in in¬ vestments by leading Israeli firms has created, a major scandal.
Rabbi Bergman repor¬ tedly - became a multi - millionaire through . the operatipns of nursing homes in New York City and State and In New'Jersey which
receive large sups of money from Medicaid. The alleged .misuse .pf these funds arid . deplorable conditions' in many of the toomes were exposed in recent articles in the New York Times and the Village Voice.
To implement this riew program, the Columbus Israel Bond Committee has re-established, an In¬ stitutional Sales Division under the Chairmanship of. Edwin M. Ellman, President of Ellman Financial Ser¬ vices Corp. . 4 1<a£nnouncenient of Mr.
Rabin Challenges Sadat To Meet Him To Discuss Peace
TEL AVIV, Dec. 22 (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin said here that he is readv to meet , with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "any time and any place" in "a face - to - face discussion for the purpose of peace talks between the two countries. Addressing the Commercial and Industrial Club here Friday, Rabin declared: "We will-sit down together in the presence of others when you (SadatJ determine the meeting and dialogue, which will be peace between Israel and Egypt.", .
The Premier made his remarks following ' a television interview broadcast on American ABC-TV Thursday 'night in which Sadat said that the United States and the Soviet
Union might jointly guarantee both Israeli and Egyptian frontier's. Stressing that the next three months was "a very crucial time" to maintain the "momentum of the whole process of peace" started by implementation of the troop separation agreements in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights, Sadat said his acceptance of the UN Security Council Resolution 242 "means that I accept Israel as a fact." ,
The one-hour interview with Howard K. Smith and Peter Jennings was taken from six interviews held in Egypt between September and December, according to' ■ the American Broadcasting Co. network, which noted
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Ellman's appointment to the Israel Bond post was made by Ben Goodman, General Chairman Of the local Israel Bond campaign.
Mr. Goodman pointed out that, since the passagCSTthe 1974 Pension Reform Act last September, most self - employed persons are-' eligible to set' aside 15 per¬ cent of their annual earned income, but not more than $7500 each year, as a tax -, free contribution to their Keogh Retirement Plan. He asserted that the 5.5 percent Fourth Development In¬ vestment Issue of State of Israel Bonds- is a suitable medium for the investment of funds contributed to such a retirement plan. .
The Israel Bond General Chairman" stated that this new element in the Israel Bond program is expected to intensify the drive to supply Israel with vital investment- capital to bolster its economy at a time of serious financial and political crisis. Since 1951, he.,, emphasized, the worldwide sale of Israel Bonds has provided $3 billion to strengthen every segment of Israel's -economic framework ahd,.to create jobs for new immigrants from Soviet Russia and other countries.
Mr. Ellman is Treasurer of the , Columbus Jewish Federation, Chairman of its Endowment " Fund and Foundation Committee, past recipient of the United Jewish Fund and Council's Theresa Stern Kahn Young Leadership Award, and a member of the Board of Congregation Tifereth Israel.
In accepting his post as Institutional Sales Chair¬ man, Mr. Ellman asserted that he and the members of his committee will .un¬ dertake a special campaign to encourage self - employed individuals who are eligible to create a Keogh'Plan for retirement to direct. in¬ vestments in Israel Bonds toward its funding.
' He explained that those who are qualified to establish such a retirement plan are self - employed individuals who own more than 10 percetiLDf-their own busines,,sg^f including physicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants, free - lance writers ahd artists, architects, store owners, dealers, .retailers, wholesalers and others whose businesses are a sole proprietorship or part¬ nership.
Mr. Ellman underscored the fact that these in¬ dividuals are placed in the preferred position of being able to purchase the same 5.5 percent State; of Israel Bonds which are available to banks, other fiduciary in¬ stitutions and employee benefit funds.
"By investing a per¬ centage of their earned in¬ come in 5.5 percent Fourth Development Investment Issue Israel Bonds every year," Mr,.. Ellman stated, "self-employed individuals can accumulate a nest egg for their retirement with substantial tax savings. In this way, they are provided \ryith a unique opportunity to help Israel while at the same time building up an annuity for their retirement which ' has the benefit of a tax shelter."
He reported that "income- derived from contributed funds to a Keogh Plan is not taxed during the years it is received by the retirement fund. The.tax is applicable only at the time the benefits are drawn from the fund on retirement. At that time, the individual may well be in a lower tax bracket and thus enjoy substantial tax savings."
Readers interested in receiving more information on the 5.5 percent Fourth, Development Investment Issue should ask for a. current prospectus from the State of Israel Bond office, 2375 East Main Street, ".Columbus, 43209, tel: -239i 7212.
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■■J/'-*./.
PRONICLg
2j|^yyServing Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 50 Years yyA\K
LI BRAKY., 0H1"0 HISTORICAL. SOCUTY 1982 VEILM/. AVE, , - -
CQLS. 0., 43211 ■ EXCH
\.
VOL. 53 NO. 1
JANUARY 2, 1975 - TEVETH 19
? *.
*4S
. >i*S
NEW YORK (JTA) — Glenn Richter, national coordinator of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, .. and Morey Schapira, coordinator for the New England SSSJ, reported that "there is not one iota-of change in the anti-Jewish policies of the USSR since the an¬ nounced Jackson Amendment 'agreement.'" -The two, who just returned from a week of intensive discussions with activist leaders in Moscow and Leningrad, said they found the activists "extremely concerned about the Jackson Amendment and urged concerned Americans to do all they can to insure implementation by Congress. A major concern of the activists, Richter and Schapira said, was the desperate condition of the POCs.
COPENHAGEN (JTA) — The famed Jewisli refugee ship, Saint/Laurence, which was the temporary home of 2000 Jewish refugees during 1969-.70; may soon become a floating hotel in an Arab country. The ship, docked in Copenhagen's harbor since 1967, became famous during the great refugee movement from Poland beginning in 1969. Polish Jews coming to Denmark lived aboard the ship while awaiting im¬ migration. Negotiations ate now under way to sell the ship to Arab interests and remove it to the Persian Gulf harbor of Abu Dhabi. The ship was originally-a pleasure shjlp, launched nearly 50 years ago from Canadian shores.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The Philaldelphia AFL- , CK) several days ago adopted a resolution, endorsing me statement on the Palestine Liberation Organization adopted,by the. AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington last month. The statement .described as ah outrage the^UN General Assembly'decision to give the PLO observer status.and criticized the Assembly for inviting thepLO to-participate in'the debate on the ' Palestine issue. The Philadelphia resolution. also declared that "the Palestinians never chose this band murderers' (the PLO) whose avowed aim is the destruction of Israel as a sovereign nation to represent them in the first place."
Gromyko Repudiates Soviet Emigration Letters: Says They "Distorted" Soviet Position
WASHINGTON, (WNS) - Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has denied giving the United States any assurarice that the Soviet Union will ease emigration restrictions " in return for U.S. -trade benefits and, credits. The denial came in the form of a release by Tass, the official Soviet News agency, of a letter sent to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (Oct.- 2&) in which he repudiates the letters of understanding between Kissinger and Sen. Henry M. Jackson on Soviet
* emigration practices. The Gromyko letter said .the Kissinger-Jackson exchange creared a "distorted im¬ pression" of the .Soviet position and declared that the USSR Expects American restrictions on trade to be
, lifted unconditionally. Gromyko's letter said that in contacts with the U.S. on the emigration issue, the Soviet Urtftm "underlined that this
internal affairs that are entirely the concern of the Soviet State, and no one else," the Tass release said.. The Gromyko letter also claimed that Kissinger had been told by the Soviets that there was "a tendency toward a decrease in the number of persons wishing to leave the USSR." Kissinger, who made no mention of the .Gromyko
letter in his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee .earlier this month, told the committee that the U.S. understanding with the Soviet Union had to be taken on "faith." He told the Senators that if he were to say specifically that an agreement had5 been reached, the Soviets would repudiate it. Later State Department
spokesman Robert Anderson said Kissinger "stands by his letter of Oct. 18" to Jackson. Congressional leaders ignored the Gromyko letter and push ahead for the enactment of the Ford Administration's Trade Bill with the Jackson Amendment intact. Jackson, in .a telephone interview broadcast over Kol Israel,
(CONTINUED TO PAGE J) '
Ellman To Head Special Israel Bond Drive
A special program has
been created to encourage
self - employed persons who
are ^eligible to set up
retirement plans to finance
these trusts with Israel Bond
investments as a means of
building up an annuity which
has substantial tax savings.
trim'-
fcto
cmestion relates totally to the ^ S^'j infernal competence of our *A> Stat£?. . Tass is authorized to state that leading circles of the SSviet Union flatly reject as' unacceptable' any attempts from whoever they may come to intervene in the
Probe Mafia Links To Bergman
Edwin Ellman
A
t-ii . ..' i 1 "-* -.\ ;s 1 1 i
-. \\ ■
-■'.'A'*
,i
NEW YORK, (JTA)-The federal^ New York State investigation into alleged fraud and other illegal ac¬ tivities in the network of nursing and old aged homes owned by Rabbi Bernard Bergman, a leader of the American and World Mizrachi Movement; will also look into possible ties with" the upderworld. - In particular, the probe will check a report that an alleged associate of reputed underworld figure Joseph A. Colombo Sr. had lived in a penthouse at one of Rabbi Bergman's • nursing homes for the indigent.
Sen. Charles H. Percy (R. 111.), a member of the Senate subcommittee on long-term care; has asked the New York Temporary State Commission on Living Costs which has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 21 to look into the matter. Percy acted on allegations by Rep. Edward I. Koch (D. NY), who charged underworld ties and political protection. Assemblyman Andrew J. Stein ' (D. Manhattan)., chairman of the com¬ mission, to)d a news con¬ ference yesterday, "It is our information that there are
connections between ,the Bernard Bergman empire and organized crime."
Steih said that' Rocco Scarfone, considered a former advisor to Colombo, had been on the payroll of the Towers ^Nursing Home and had used a penthouse in the Park Crescent Nursing Home, both Bergman facilities on Manhattan's Upper West Side. ,Rabbi Bergman, a former president of the Religious Zionist Organization of America, heads the Mizrachi's Religious Education Committee in the U.S. He' is also one of three members of the World Mizrachi Presidium which is. closely connected to the National Religious Party in Israeli Another member and associate of Rabbi Bergman is Swiss - Jewish financier Tibor Rosenbaum whose financial troubles involving millions of dollars in in¬ vestments by leading Israeli firms has created, a major scandal.
Rabbi Bergman repor¬ tedly - became a multi - millionaire through . the operatipns of nursing homes in New York City and State and In New'Jersey which
receive large sups of money from Medicaid. The alleged .misuse .pf these funds arid . deplorable conditions' in many of the toomes were exposed in recent articles in the New York Times and the Village Voice.
To implement this riew program, the Columbus Israel Bond Committee has re-established, an In¬ stitutional Sales Division under the Chairmanship of. Edwin M. Ellman, President of Ellman Financial Ser¬ vices Corp. . 4 1$-s>?f ;■»:..'i-v.^;.., ;v ■■•-./-: -A Af---- ',..■■.„ '"-Ato-* A >»i.-.-^.-Jr A;A,,:;' ■ ;; AV^\,» ■•'t-l- A'1 .to ' .< . . . ■ -A